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...entrance to Havana Harbor stands a grey 300-year-old fortress called Morro Castle. On the sandy beach at Asbury Park, N. J. last week lay the smoking, fire-gutted, heat-wracked cadaver of a liner named after the fortress. Between Morro Castle and Asbury Park the Morro Castle passed through a maritime horror unequalled since the Vestris went down off the Virginia Capes (TIME...
Wednesday evening the twin-screw turbo-electric liner Morro Castle, 11,500 tons, lay at her Ward Line pier in Havana. In her hold was a cargo of 750 tons of perishable fruit. She was manned by a crew of 240. And up her gangway, in little groups chattering about their Cuban purchases, trooped 318 passengers. Most of them were U. S. vacationists on a week's southern cruise and few of them were distinguished persons. The Morro Castle was warped into the roadstead, stood out of the harbor, bound for New York, three days away...
...barometer began to fall off the Florida Keys. On the second day a heavy sea was running. By the next evening the Morro Castle was riding a gale off the Capes...
...Caribbean tramp was T. E. L. Morro Castle. The last word in mechanical modernity, her propulsion was of the most expensive sort: oil-burning boilers drove steam turbines to power the motors which turned her screws. She was built at Newport News, Va. in 1930 for $5,500.000. Against fire she was protected by one of the most elaborate systems ever installed afloat. In a special fire-control room was a switchboard, supposed to be manned day & night, with tubes which permitted the operator to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to any threatened part of the ship. An automatic alarm system...
...Havana Harbor Cuba's two cruisers Cuba and Patria, went into action hiding behind the Ward Liner Morro Castle for protection and popping shells over her smokestacks. Dozens of machine gun bullets splattered the liner's deck, but miraculously no one was hit, not even a porthole smashed...